On Japanese Whaling Ship Crushes Super-Action Activist Boat
While on the Ady Gil: "Dudes, where is the reverse button? Dudes? DUDES!!!!"
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On The Terrible Story Of Shellie Ross (And Everyone Else)
MisterHippity I very clearly stated (and which you omitted) that this was a MARGINAL possibility. Is it likely? No. Do I hope it is true? Absolutely not. You are obviously very emotionally tied to this news story, but don't let that emotional attachment get in the way of acknowledging that this woman's critics aren't just heartless zombies looking for a victim to pounce on. They are simply asking what it means to Twitter a death? Such a question would have been preposterous until it happened. Twitter, something viewed by many as a casual time-waster, has suddenly taken on a new dimension. Now we are soul-searching. I think it amazing that this discourse is happening. We are defining, through healthy debate and not name-calling, what function social media will play in our lives.
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On The Terrible Story Of Shellie Ross (And Everyone Else)
"...when a child dies this way, parents generally feel like they fucked up â€" whatever they were doing at the time â€" and don’t need to be reminded of it."
Moff, here you're generalizing in defense of your viewpoint, while downplaying the motivation for others' who disagree with you, which is that there is a marginal chance that the use of Twitter less than an hour after the death of a child may, in some small way, indicate that perhaps this certain individual did not experience the general emotional response that most people, including yourself, would attribute to a normal parent who just lost a child.
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On The Terrible Story Of Shellie Ross (And Everyone Else)
Moff your overbearing relativism is astounding. You're arguing for the validity of the mother's emotional response to her child's death by Tweeting, while simultaneously arguing against the validity of other Twitter users' emotional responses to said Tweet. Either Twitter is a culturally acceptable emotional vehicle or it isn't.
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On The Brooklyn Craft Fairs Write a Love Letter to You
I can't help but imagine a bunch of little kids who set up at a lemonade stand on the street corner, except these are adults...
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On Are 13-Year-Olds Taking Our Jobs?
Go watch a Little League baseball game. There is that one kid on the mound with a mustache pitching 83 MPH while his dad screams at him from the bleachers. This girl isn't a freak, she's just overworked by her parents and doesn't have any friends to distract her from her (parents') obsession.
As a side note, If I could have blogged about Dungeons & Dragons when I was 13, you bet your ass I would have been on the cover of Teen Vogue.
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On Dave Eggers: Still Not The Real Enemy!
I love the comments generated by a cut-and-paste article with one-sentence comments about ANOTHER article.
The future of journalism is not actually doing an interview, or going to a place, but just commenting on someone else's comments on how they did that stuff. It will be like the 2nd Enlightenment.